Date: January 11, 1973
Time: Between 11:03 am and 1:00 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with members of the Council on Environmental Quality [CEQ]; Russell E.
Train, John A. Busterud, Beatrice “Betty” Willard, Richard M. Fairbanks, III, and John D.
Ehrlichamn. Members of the press and the White House photographer were present at the
beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
-Environmentalists
Press photograph
CEQ suggestions
-State of the Union environmental message
-Water bill
-Press relations
-World-wide environmental concerns
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Japan
-Great Britian
-United Nations [UN]
-Previous State of the Union reports
-Status update
-Public relations outlook
Plan to submit State of the Union in ten installments
-Foreign policy, defense, environment
-Length
-State of Union messages
-Possibility of optimistic orientation
-US wealth
-US technology
-Interior Department
-National Parks
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Government reorganization
-Council for Natural Resources
-Earl L. Butz
-Secretary of the Interior
-Secretary of Agriculture
-Butz
-Qualities
-Ehrlichman
-Butz
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Butz
-Responsibilities
-Morton
Herman Kahn
-Domestic Council, Raymond K. Price, Jr’s staff
-Zero population growth rebuttal
-Doomsday
-The President’s opinion
Daniel P. Moynihan
-President’s population message
-Growth theories
Growth study of US population
-Zero population growth effects
-Schools
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Hospitals
-Problems
-Herbert Stein’s involvement
-Hospital beds
-Hill-Burton program
-University dorm space
-Stein
-George P. Shultz
-Richardson
-Schools
-West Point
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-Naval Academy
-Air Force Academy
-Numbers of graduates
-Pressure on defense budget
-Richardson
Intelligence services
-Activities
-New York Times
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-James R. Schlesinger
Armed services
-Tactical air units
-Army
-Navy
-Air Force
Education
-Teachers
-Numbers
-Carlos P. Romulo
-Lawyers
-Doctors
-Social Scientists
-White collar education
-Kahn
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Pollution regulation
-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Land issues
-State guidelines
-Controversy
-CEQ position
-Regionalism
Planning for the future
-Price
-Land use
-Suburbia
-Rural reaction
-Santa Rosa, California
-Valley of the Moon
-Colorado
-Olympics
-Squaw Valley
-Land use
Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox’s trip to Europe
-Rome
-Pope Paul VI
-Yugoslavia
-USSR
-Leningrad
-Moscow
Amsterdam
-Planned communities
-Bucharest
Challenges in dealing with the environment
-Resources
-Cities
-Idealism
-Volunteerism
-Blacks
-Puerto Ricans
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-Public housing
-Miami, Florida
-Conditions
-Emphasis on individual responsibility
-Environmental education
-Example of population errors
-Thomas Malthus
-Population concerns
-South America
-England
-Japan
-Budget concerns
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
Spiro T. Agnew entered at 11:38 am.
Introduction of Agnew to Train, et al.
Train, et al. left at 11:39 am, Agnew remained and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered.
President’s meeting with CEQ members
-Environment
-Train
-Budget concerns
-CIA
-Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA]
-Intelligence community
-Richard M. Helms
Intelligence services
-Quality
-Schlesinger
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:39 am.
Ollie Atkins
-Photograph
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.
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Schedule
State of the Union Address
Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins entered at an unknown time after 11:39 am.
State of the world address
Atkins left at an unknown time before 12:14 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-Henry A. Kissinger
-International press corps
US foreign relations
-Middle East
-Joseph J. Sisco
-William P. Rogers
-Anwar el-Sadat
-Agnew’s visit to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
-King Hussein of Jordan’s visit to US
-Golda Meir’s visit to US
-Hussein
-Possible trip to Middle East by Agnew
-Sadat
-Diversion from Vietnam negotiations
-Unknown name [Sahdik?]
-International oil consortium
-Saudi Arabia
-Kuwait
-Shah of Iran
-Energy crisis
-Agnew’s trip to Middle East
-Diversion from Vietnam negotiations
-Timing
-Reaction of press
-Results
-Effect
-Agnew’s visit to Nguyen Van Thieu
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-Results
-Press relations
-Israeli’s
-Rogers
-Abba Eban
-Moshe Dayan
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Meir
-Question of Agnew’s possible trip
-Timing
-Inauguration
-Meir
-Results
Bombing of North Vietnam
-Rationale
-Kissinger
-Congressional relations
-John E. Moss
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Cease-fire
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Thieu
North Vietnamese actions
-Quang Tri
-Destruction in South Vietnam
Agnew’s schedule
-Speaking engagement in John F. Kerry’s district
-Paul W. Cronin
-Issues
-War
-Erosion of values
-New Orleans sniper incident
-Congressional encroachment on executive privilege
-Schedule of speaking engagement
-Lincoln Club engagement
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-California
Vietnam negotiations
-Congress
-Effect
-Kissinger
-Criticism of the administration
-1968 campaign
-Congress
-Democrats, Republicans
-Kissinger
-Schedule
-Congress
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Robert J. Dole
-Rogers
-Melvin R. Laird
-Negotiations
-President’s attitude
-Cease-fire
-POWs
-Thieu
-South Vietnam
-Congress
-Apology
-William B. Saxbe
-Charles M. Mathias, Jr.
-Jacob K. Javits
-Mathias
-News article on Vietnam
-B52 navigator
-US servicemen in Vietnam
-Loyalty
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
Congress
-Mathias
-Letter of serviceman
-Possible opposition in Republican primary
-[First name unknown] Spizak [?]
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-Saxbe
-Donald D. Clancy
-Samuel L. Devine
Middle East
-Possibility of Agnew’s trip
-Israel
-United Arab Republic [UAR]
-UN
-Possibility of war
-Buffer zones
-Sadat
-Israeli’s
-Golan Heights
-Syria
Agnew’s responsibilities
-Intergovernmental relations
-Chicago
-California
-Congressional invitations
Democratic senators
Congressional relations
-Mathias’s letter from Vietnam serviceman
-Press relations
-Thomas H. Moorer
-Laird
-World War II
-World War I
Agnew’s schedule
-Vietnam negotiations
-Congressional reactions
-Charles W. Colson
-William J. Baroody, Jr.
-Haldeman
-Patrick J. Buchanan
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Agnew left at 12:14 pm.
Agnew
-Question of Agnew’s Middle East trip
-Agnew’s staff
-Procedures for broaching subject
-President’s experiences with Sherman Adams
-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Sadat
-Rogers
Report on Democrat Caucus
Haldeman talked with William E. Timmons at an unknown time between 12:14 pm and 1:00 pm.
[Conversation No. 838-19A cont’d]
[See Conversation No. 35-132]
[End of telephone conversation]
Democrat Caucus meeting
-Vietnam resolution
-Cabinet members’ testimony before Congressional Committees
-Rogers
-Foreign Relations Committee
-J. William Fulbright
-“Halfbright”
-Impoundment of funds
-John V. Tunney
-Meeting
-Tom C. Korologos
-Impeachment
-Cartoons in Washington Post
-Congress
-Problems
Agnew
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-Confidentiality
-Vietnam
-Intergovernmental relations
-Speeches
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
-Compared to Harry S. Truman
-Press relations
-Effort
-Effectiveness
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Bombing
-Staff questions
-Kissinger
-Phone call
-Cable
-Proposal
-Agreement
-Timing of announcement
-Kissinger
-Finalize agreement
-Announcement
-Timing
-Haig
-Hanoi
-Kissinger
-Press relations
-Phone calls
-Haig
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:14 pm.
Food order
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:00 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-John A. Scali
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-Rogers
-Laird
-Rogers
-Compared to Kissinger
-Communication
-Democrats
-Rogers’s testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-Kissinger
-Haig
-Bombing
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Lag time
-Reaction to bombing
-Press relations
-Kissinger’s return
-Richard T. Kennedy
-Possible announcement
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Haig
-Thieu
-Bombing suspension
-US goals
-Cease-fire
-POWs
-Possible reaction
-Ziegler
-Kissinger’s role
-Rogers
-Agreement
-William H. Sullivan
-Protocols
-Rogers’s attitude about negotiations
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] communique
-Chou En-Lai
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Role in negotiations
President’s foreign travel
-Secretary of State in official party
-[David] Kenneth Rush
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-John A. Volpe
-PRC and USSR trips
-Rogers’s role
-Foreign trips
-Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
-Kissinger
-Europe
-Romania
-Canada
-Mexico
-USSR
-PRC
-Pakistan
-Iran
-Warsaw
-Future schedule
-Europe
-Future trips
-State Department role
-Possible schedule
Future visits to US
-Edward R. G. Heath
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Emperor of Japan
-USSR
-Heath
Vietnam negotiations
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
President’s schedule
-Florida
-Camp David
-Kissinger
-Colson
Appointments
-Colson
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-Baroody
-Herbert G. Klein
-Frank Stanton
-Red Cross
-George D. Webster
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-William J. Casey
-CIA
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Colson
-Ehrlichman
-Klein
-Ehrlichman’s view
-“Meet the Press”
-Credibility
-Lewis A. Engman appointment
-Ehrlichman
-Webster
-Colson
Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Randolph Thrower
Shultz
Vietnam negotiations
-Agreement
-Thieu
-Media role
-Agnew speech on negotiations
President’s schedule
-Florida
-Haig
-Kissinger
-State of the World message
-Inaugural address
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Vietnam negotiations
-Kissinger
-Social events
-Congress
-Timmons
-Briefings
Haldeman left at 1:00 pm.